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A decade of experience with an inpatient pneumococcal vaccination program.

Purpose: A hospital's experience with an inpatient pneumococcal vaccination program is described.

Summary: Saint Luke's Hospital (SLH) is a 625-bed, tertiary care, referral hospital in Kansas City, Missouri. In a retrospective analysis conducted in 1995 of pneumococcal vaccination rates in patients with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) at the hospital, only 1 of 84 patients had documented pneumococcal vaccination.